Oh My Goodness

Vollard tells us that Degas feigned deafness to escape disputations and harangues concerning things he considered false and distasteful...he must have only surmised what we know definitely today: that the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
              -Artist's Reality, Mark Rothko (c. 1940-1), Artist's Reality Philosophies of Art,Yale University Press 2004